Central Huijin Investment

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Central Huijin Investment Company Limited (Simplified Chinese: 中央汇金投资有限责任公司)is an investment company owned by the government of the People's Republic of China, and administrated through the Ministry of Finance. The purpose of Central Huijin is to create an organizational structure by which the PRC government can operate as shareholder for the large "big four" state owned banks.

It currently owns majority stakes in all of the big four Chinese banks, but does not own shares in the smaller joint-stock commercial banks which are largely owned by local governments.

As of June 7, 2006, the ownership of 'H' shares in the Bank of China (SEHK:3988) has been:

  • Central Huijin Investment: 69.265% (171,325,404,740 shares)
  • RBS China: 8.467% (20,942,736,236 shares)
  • AFH: 4.765% (11,785,825,118 shares)
  • SSF: 4.576% (11,317,729,129 shares)
  • UBS AG: 1.366% (3,377,860,684 shares)
  • ADB: 0.205% (506,679,102 shares)
  • Other (including private) investors: 11.356% (28,089,421,000 shares)